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Susan Mayne’s First Year as Director of CFSAN

Constituent Update

February 1, 2016

Susan Mayne, Ph.D., joined the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in January 2015 as the new director of the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN). She came to the FDA from Yale University, where she was the C.-E.A. Winslow Professor and Chair of the Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health, and Associate Director of Yale Cancer Center.

In a question-and-answer interview, Dr. Mayne shares her thoughts on her first year as CFSAN director, including accomplishments, challenges and things that have surprised her. She also talks about what she sees for the future at CFSAN.